Director, Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law, University of MünsterLL.M., McGill University Law School, 1985Dr. jur., University of Hamburg, 1990Habil., University of Hamburg, 1995

Bernd Holznagel teaches constitutional law, administrative law, European law and administrative sciences at the University of Münster in Germany.

Holznagel studied law and sociology in Berlin and passed his first state exam in law in 1984. After postgraduate LL.M. studies at McGill University (Law School) in Montreal, Canada, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg (1990) and passed the second state exam in law in 1991. He finished his habilitation at the University of Hamburg (1995). The habilitation (“Broadcasting Law in Europe. The Path to a Common Law in the European Broadcasting System”) won a special award issued by the European Group of Public Law during its Spetses Reunion in 1996.

Holznagel is member of the academic advisory council of the German regulatory authority.

His research interests include regulatory law, state aid law as well as media and data protection law.